hammer out
verb
hammered out; hammering out; hammers out
: to produce or bring about as if by repeated blows
hammered out an agreement
Examples of hammer out in a Sentence
the city council hammered out new commercial development regulations with input from residents, business owners, and environmental activists
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That set off a roughly two-year struggle to hammer out the complex details of how that would work, even as legal challenges poured in.
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Lolita C. Baldor, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2025
Today, standards bodies from ISO 20022 working groups to the BIS’s Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures are hammering out privacy, messaging, and liquidity templates for CBDCs.
—Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Industry leaders will quickly catch wise and, rather than spend billions upending their supply chains, work overtime to hammer out some kind of exemption.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2025
In the months before those Oval Office meetings, the two sides had hammered out a tentative agreement for the Saudis to pool $1.5 billion in a new commercial arm, alongside a band of new U.S. investors.
—Lauren Hirsch, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
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Lolita C. Baldor, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2025
Today, standards bodies from ISO 20022 working groups to the BIS’s Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures are hammering out privacy, messaging, and liquidity templates for CBDCs.
—Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Industry leaders will quickly catch wise and, rather than spend billions upending their supply chains, work overtime to hammer out some kind of exemption.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2025
In the months before those Oval Office meetings, the two sides had hammered out a tentative agreement for the Saudis to pool $1.5 billion in a new commercial arm, alongside a band of new U.S. investors.
—Lauren Hirsch, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
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